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faſhionably educated, &c.
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If what I have written ſhould be read by parents, who are now going on in thoughtleſs extravagance, and anxious only that their daughters may be genteelly educated, let them conſider to what ſorrows they expoſe them; for I have not over-coloured the picture.
Though I warn parents to guard againſt leaving their daughters to encounter ſo much miſery; yet if a young woman falls into it, ſhe ought not to be diſcontented. Good muſt ultimately ariſe from every thing, to thoſe who look beyond this infancy of their being; and here the comfort of a good conſcience is our only ſtable ſupport. The main buſineſs of our lives is to
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